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Project — Working With Tasks

A full-featured project management solution with all the necessary functions right at your fingertips. Generates an extensive variety of reports on project and task statuses.
These videos provide a series of lessons that will enhance the understanding of all our users, from people just starting out with the software, through to expert users.
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How to Customize a Task’s Duration

When you create an automatically scheduled task, ConceptDraw PROJECT assigns it duration of one day by default. You need modify that duration to reflect the real amount of time that the task requires.
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What Information to be Displayed in the ConceptDraw PROJECT Gantt Chart View

What information can can contain the project task list? Gantt Chart view is a graphical representation of a project outline that allows one to allocate tasks.You can customize a project’s tasks list view to include the columns you need to meet your information requirements. The columns of the ConceptDraw PROJECT Gantt view contain the information you want to capture about each task in your project. The following article details what information can be contained in the columns of a project outline:<
Getting Started with ConceptDraw PROJECT
Getting Started with ConceptDraw PROJECT
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How to Create a Mind Map from Selected Tasks in Project

You can see the project data in a mind map structure by create a mind map from the selected project tasks.
How To Plan and Implement Projects with ConceptDraw Office
How To Plan and Implement Projects with ConceptDraw Office
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How to Plan and Allocate Resources in Your Project with ConceptDraw PROJECT for Windows

Effective resource management is a key factor in the successful project implementation. The common types of resources for which the project manager has an impact, include material resources (materials, energy), staff (work) and equipment. CoceptDraw PROJECT provides easy ways to project Resources Management: Create a list of project resources and assign the right human resource, as well as the necessary material, or equipment to be used.
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How to Edit a Project Task List

A list of a project tasks is core to any project plan. It is the basic part of a project schedule. The project task list should include all of the work associated with fulfilling the project on time. Having an entire and complete task list, the project manager will be able to estimate the costs and resources, necessary to implement the project. The project task list creation is a key piece of project management. The list of project tasks have include activities, should be performed, and the sequence in which tasks need to be completed.
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How to Use the Effort-Driven Scheduling Method

The idea of Effort-driven scheduling in project management is that each project task can be scheduled and assumed basing to the amount of the available work hours. Effort-driven scheduling is used as the default method of project scheduling in ConceptDraw PROJECT. This means that task duration, units, and work amount for individual assignment depends on the entire work, required for a given task. Whether you add or remove resources, the total work amount still the same, while ConceptDraw PROJECT regulates the duration of task or units assigned for the given resources.
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How to Operate with Project Time Frames in ConceptDraw PROJECT

ConceptDraw PROJECT applies an advanced scheduling facilities to enable you arrange your project's tasks with existing human and material resources. Comprehension of project scheduling principle allows you to plan the project the best way to execute it. Sometimes user is wondering why the task is moved to a different time than he supposed. Or he may be confused when a task's tardiness provoke the unwanted shift of other tasks. This article describes how do changes to the Start/Finish dates, or the Duration of the task affect the project schedule, created in ConceptDraw PROJECT.
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How to Change the Working Time in a Project

Project calendar determines working and non-working time of the project. It is used as a base to the project schedule development. There two types of project calendars: Project Calendar - which sets the working time for the whole project; and the Resource Calendar- which sets the working time of the particular project resource. The following article describes how to change the default calendar in ConceptDraw PROJECT.
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How to Make a Project Tasks Mind Map from Brainstorm

Start project with creating a mind map, structuring ideas captured during a brainstorming session.
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How to Find Task Information in Your Project File

Once you have created a list of project tasks that need to be carried out, you may need to fine tune your project schedule in more detail by indenting or outdenting tasks, entering task duration, and setting dependence between project tasks. Find out how to view the details of a project task.
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How to add Several Hyperlinks to a Single Project Task

The number of hyperlinks, you can add to each project item in ConceptDraw PROJECT file is unlimited.
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How to Manage a Multiple Project Participants Responsibilities with To-Do Mind Maps

All project participants are kept informed of their responsibilities in projects and can detail their tasks in a creative mind map format.

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This solution extends ConceptDraw PROJECT software with the ability to quickly start a project; it lists task relationships and dependencies to make iterative planning easy.
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How are Summary Values of Project Phases Calculated

The project schedule usually consists of a list of project tasks joined into project phases. Each task has its own value such as duration, cost, % complete, etc.

How To Plan and Implement Projects Faster

ConceptDraw Office is the most effective tool for planning, tracking, and reporting all types of projects with strong management capabilities, user friendly functionality, and superior ease of use. In this tutorial video we will assist you in planning and managing a project using ConceptDraw Office.
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How to Create Project Diagrams on PC

Visual diagrams gives the ability to view at a detailed level project attributes such as project scope, logical connections in the project, critical paths, key events on the timeline, milestones, tasks, calendars for work, and resource utilization.
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How to Create a Gantt Chart for Your Project

Instruction on how to create Gantt chart using ConceptDraw PROJECT software.
Gant Chart is a graphical representation of tasks as segments on a time scale. It helps plan or overlapping.
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How to Create Multple Projects Schedule on Windows

ConceptDraw PROJECT is simple project scheduling software, it allows grouping individual projects into a multiple project that can use a common resource pool and a synchronized task schedule. You can create a detailed schedule of your multiple project quickly and easy with ConceptDraw PROJECT. When considering project change requests, project manager can model their interaction by grouping or dividing into sub-projects. It include useful critical path scheduling software tools. Multiproject Dashboard enables planning and managing several projects simultaneously using the single resource pool for all projects. The Multiproject Dashboard helps you plan multiple projects while providing you with overall view.
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How to Improve a Project by Using a Mind Map

The InGyre technology provided in ConceptDraw Office makes it easy to copy one or more task branches from ConceptDraw MINDMAP to ConceptDraw PROJECT.